New York University School of Education - Education Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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VARSITY FOOTBALL, 1950

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ATHLETICS

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Foo+ball, I930 ARMINGDALE reports varied so much that the undergraduates hardly knew what to be- lieve. On the one hand, enthusiastic Alumni were praising the team to the skiesg on the other, the more pessimistic sport scribes were making gloomy forecasts. The Super-Sophsi' and Vio- lent Violets had no power, and no experience. Witlm all these conflicting statements com- ing from the Front, everyone looked forward to the first game. Hobart fell a victim in a lop-sided battle which warmed the hearts of the majority but caused the pessimists to bewail the fact that it was not another 77-0 affair as had been the first meeting with Vermont the year before. The next two or three contests did not definitely win over the cynics. By this time, however, the students were pretty well satisfied with their Gridiron representa- tives. The Fordham tilt, though the sports writers had told us so, was a disappointment but the brilliant showing against Carnegie the very next week not only redeemed the team but boosted their stock far above its previous high. Two 7-6 defeats at the hands of Georgia and Colgate, rated as two of the best teams in the country, failed to dim the ardor of the N. Y. U. rooters and the close of the season found them still laud- ing their men and predicting miracles for the squad and disaster for their opponents-next year. 169